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An unexpected fall in inflation, but prices are still rising

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It's fallen to 2.6% - the first time it's fallen

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since last October, but its still higher

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We'll ask what it means for living standards.

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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says youth custody centres in England

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and Wales are so unsafe that a tragedy is inevitable.

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Improvements in life expectancy almost grind to a halt in England -

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a leading health academic says austerity may be having an impact.

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Another blow to President Trump's promise to overturn Obamacare

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as some of his own senators refuse to back his latest

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How can such a pretty wife make such bad coffee?

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Not just a thing of the past - there are new calls

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for a crackdown on adverts that portray sexist stereotypes.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News: Up to number four

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in the world rankings, but after reaching the Wimbledon

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semifinals, Johanna Konta says she's working towards being

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The rate of inflation slowed unexpectedly last month,

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Consumer price inflation, the rate at which the price of goods

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and services bought by households rise or fall, stood at 2.6% in June,

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It's the first fall since October last year, and is thought to be

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largely a result of lower petrol and diesel prices.

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Our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports.

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This carpet factory in Kidderminster has been stepping up production

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to meet growing demand, with orders up 30%

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The devaluation of the pound before and after the Brexit vote pushed up

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the cost of importing wool to make the yarn that goes into its carpets.

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With higher wage costs, it can't trim much

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So it's moved its product upmarket, and convinced retailers it's worth

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paying a little bit more for its designs.

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We've increased prices by around 2% this year.

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And that's been a natural consequence of increased wage costs,

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We have had to pass that on to our customers.

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By and large, customers don't like price increases in a time

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of economic instability, I suppose, the uncertainty that

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But there's also an understanding that that has to take place.

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Higher costs of imported raw materials caused by the drop

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in the pound's value is still feeding through to prices.

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11 months ago, the Bank of England's big fear

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wasn't too much inflation, but too little.

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And it cut interest rates to their lowest ever level.

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But now that's changed, there are more voices calling

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for interest rates to return from emergency levels back up

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The fear now is that inflation isn't temporary,

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Those voices will be a little quieter now that the figures have

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revealed some relief from rising inflation last month.

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Between May and June, furniture, furnishings,

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But recreation - everything from concerts

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to games and hobbies - dropped 0.1%.

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And fuel prices fell back on the month by 1.1%.

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It looks as if inflation might be dampened a bit by softer fuel price

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But underlying price pressures from post-Brexit falls

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in Sterling are still there, and they look set to continue

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to push inflation up a bit further as we move towards the end

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For now, the pressure on the Bank of England to tame

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inflation by raising interest rates has lessened.

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In the City, they're still betting a rise in interest

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rates will be needed, but not until next March.

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Andy Verity, BBC News, Kidderminster.

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Our business editor Simon Jack is here.

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Does this evenings for consumers somewhat? A little bit, but we

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should make no mistake. Wages are still going up less quickly than

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prices are so the squeeze is still on. At what is happening here is

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that this inflationary pressure we have seen has accelerated a little

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bit. It all started after the Brexit vote, when we saw the pound fall

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which meant that all important goods went up very sharply in price.

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Imagine a snake swallowing a large animal. It takes its time to get

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down the system. The question is now we have seen this goal down, does

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this mean that inflation has peaked and that bulge in prices has worked

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its way out of the system? It may have, but we may still have some

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pressure so it is not impossible that prices may go up again. But as

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Andy said, the Bank of England, who watch inflation very carefully, that

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is their main job, were thinking that maybe it is time to put up

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interest rates. They have been very reluctant to do that when real

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incomes are falling. You have Brexit uncertainty and what have you. They

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will be looking for excuses not to do that and they may have found just

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enough to put that off. Although the squeeze on incomes is still very

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much on, the interest rise looks off. All right, thanks for now.

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Theresa May has told Conservative MPs to end what she called

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the 'backbiting' over disagreements within the party.

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At a reception in the Commons last night, the Prime Minister warned

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that the alternative to her in Number 10

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At Cabinet this morning, Mrs May is believed to have

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reminded ministers keep their discussions private.

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Our assistant political editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.

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How much do we know then about what cabinet ministers were pulled this

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morning? We know when you face a breakdown in cabinet discipline such

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as Theresa May has faced, it is always going to be a test of your

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authority because it raises questions about how much grip you

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have and if you work in a strong position as Prime Minister then you

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can act as a vengeful slayer and sack the ministerial miscreants, or

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if you want to die let down, you can bang the table and give them the

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death I stare and loyalty. Theresa May has had to significantly dial it

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down because of her weakened position. Today she seemed to

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adopted the position of a disapproving parents, expressing her

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disappointment that ministers had failed to live up to their

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responsibilities, they haven't set in example to the country in terms

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of showing unity. Then taking advantage of her move to introduce a

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more open, discursive style of cabinet. We'll be reprimand work?

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Well, perhaps not, given the personal and political animosity in

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the cabinet, many of them directed at the Chancellor, who incidentally

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in the comments just a short time ago was looking decidedly perky,

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telling MPs, "I am not enfeebled." As for Theresa May, I think I hope

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is not so much that the reprimand will work, but that time will come

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to her rescue. The ministers will go will wait for the break and then

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come back in a better mood. Norman, thank you. Norman Smith at

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Westminster. The Chief Inspector of Prisons has

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warned that youth custody centres in England and Wales are so unsafe

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that a tragedy is inevitable. Peter Clarke said there'd been such

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a decline in standards that he'd written to ministers

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earlier this year. Launching his annual report,

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Mr Clarke said he hadn't inspected a single establishment

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where it was safe Our home affairs correspondent

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Danny Shaw is here. Very strong words here, Danny.

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Strong findings in this report. He was so concerned that he wrote to

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Philip Lee, the minister, in February, and said that something

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has to be done about this. He is extremely worried about levels of

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violence. He said there is a kind of vicious circle in these young

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offender institutions and secure training centres, whereby a young

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boy is violent, they then have restrictions placed on what they can

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do. Perhaps they are locked in their room for longer and cannot do

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various activities. Security measures are put into place. That

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leads to them being more frustrated, which in turn leads to more

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violence. He said some of these places just cannot break out of that

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issue circle. And so what are the Government saying about that in

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response to his comments? Well, the Government has put into place a new

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service dedicated for youth custody services and they hope that will

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drive improvements. They are also going to boost staffing levels by

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20%. There are staff shortages right across the prison estate which has

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affected the way that services are run and impacted on the ability of

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prisoners to get out of their cell and do constructive activities and

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we are seeing that in the adult jails as well as with young

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offenders. All right, Danny. Thank you for now.

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A leading health academic has warned that improvements in life

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expectancy have almost 'ground to a halt' in England.

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Professor Sir Michael Marmot, from University College London,

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says the rate of increase, which has been rising for decades,

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He says it is entirely possible that austerity is affecting

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how long people live, but the government says its policies

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aren't responsible, as Sara Smith explains.

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For years, we have been getting, well, older. For a century, average

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life expectancy has been rising. In England, it is now 83 for women and

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73 for men. But the author of a study at the Institute for health

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Equity says he is deeply concerned that increases have now levelled off

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and while he can't make any firm conclusions, what he describes as

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miserly health and social care spending could be contributing. It

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is entirely possible and I think it is urgent that we try and sort that

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out, but we try and work out if it has, and if it has, it is one more

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argument why we should be more generous in our social expenditure

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if we want to address the quality of life of older people and if we want

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to address inequalities in health at all ages. Historically, for every

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five years later and you were born, you would expect a year longer life

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span. It was every three and a half years for men. But since 2010, like

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expectancy only increases a year every ten years for women and every

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six for men. Care for older people was particularly pressing, said Prof

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Michael Marmot, because the increase in those with dementia, you would

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need more, not less, funding. When this woman's father developed the

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disease, she said they struggled to get the support they needed to look

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after him properly. By the time we started to make headway to in

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looking after with him and we put together a package, unfortunately

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his condition deteriorated so rapidly that he becoming white sick

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and was admitted to hospital. People are dying in a way that they should

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not need to because of that lack of support. We are an affluent country

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and we should be able to support people with dementia as well as we

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support people with cancer or heart disease. We're not doing it and it

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is about time we started to provide that support. But the Department of

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Health says more money is going into the NHS and social care and life

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expectancy continues to rise. Sarah Smith, BBC News.

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A BBC investigation has found that only a fraction of the money donated

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to the Grenfell Tower fire appeal has so far reached survivors,

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Nearly ?20 million has been raised, and 40,000 boxes

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But only half a million pounds of that has so far been

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This is the Grenfell Tower Fire Appeal in action.

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A Red Cross sorting centre in Cheshire.

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Donations in the green bags will be sold in Red Cross shops.

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Brand-new items will go straight back to survivors of the fire,

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It's about turning all of the different donations

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we've had into cash, which automatically will

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To appreciate the scale of donations, you have to fly

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through this London warehouse a week after the fire.

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It's estimated 174 tonnes of stuff was donated.

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And ten tonnes has gone back to the victims.

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No amount of money is enough for the loved ones of those who died.

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Research by the BBC shows that several appeals and charities have

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Some question why only a small part of that has made it through.

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You feel that it's betraying the public's generosity,

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because they gave money to help directly those who are affected.

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And they're not too clear that it's happening,

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and organisations instead of individuals are getting

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Charities say the complexity and scale of what happened here

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The thing about these things that we've learned from the 7/7 attacks

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and indeed the response to the Manchester attacks,

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it takes longer than you might think for people to come forward

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Thelma Stober lost her left foot in the London 7/7 bombings.

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She received money donated by the public.

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A lot of people are suffering from post-traumatic stress.

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You are trying to understand what has happened, the implications

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for your life going forward - it's changed forever.

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It took 15 months to distribute all of the money raised

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for victims of those attacks like Thelma.

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Thelma is now a trustee of the London Emergency Trust.

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It's distributing ?4.8 million of the Grenfell Appeal.

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So far, 16 people have received payments.

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Whether donating an old top or a tenner, people

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The challenge for charities is ensuring it all benefits

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Ther'es been an unexpected fall in inflation for

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the first time since last

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October, but prices are still rising faster than wages.

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England's bowlers are on top form at the Cricket World Cup.

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Can they beat South Africa to make it through to Sunday's final?

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Paying back the ?75 million goal-by-goal.

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Romelu Lukaku gets his first in a Manchester United shirt.

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And it's the winner, too, in a friendly match

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After enjoying the pomp of Bastille Day in Paris last week,

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President Trump has returned to the US to find some of his key

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His attempt to replace his predecessor's health care system

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have been dealt another major blow - two more Republican Senators have

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refused to back his latest plans, making it impossible for the Bill

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On a visit to Paris last week, Donald Trump basked in the warm

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welcome from French President Emmanuel Macron. Mr Trump looking

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reluctant to leave. And no wonder - returning to Washington has meant

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facing once again the grim reality that his administration is old town

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by a long list of crises. -- is bogged down. Top of that list -

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opposition to the President'splan to abolish reforms brought in by his

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predecessor, which in enabled more than 20 million Americans to get

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affordable health insurance. Introducing legislation to replace

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Obamacare was a key Trump campaign pledge.

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The House Bill ends the Obamacare nightmare, and gives health care

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decisions back to the states and back to the American people.

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Now, with even several politicians from his own party

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pledging to oppose this, there's no chance the

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And it's the same story with another controversial Trump policy,

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The limited travel ban preventing Muslims from several countries

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Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete

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shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our

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country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.

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But the President's executive orders have frequently been blocked

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It was just last month that Mr Trump made another huge announcement.

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The United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord...

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But once again, he's come under intense pressure to change his mind,

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from the international community and back home.

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Particularly here in the key state of California,

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which has just voted to extend its laws to

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Plagued by so many problems, the President's approval rating has

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now dropped to just 36%, according to the latest

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And this after only six months in office.

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And of course, there's the other growing crisis looming over the

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administration - the scandal over Russia's interference in the

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presidential election, allegedly to help Mr Trump reach the White House.

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Let's go live now to Washington and speak

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to our correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue.

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What does this mean specifically for health care now, Gary? Well, it

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means quite simply for the time being it's done. They don't have the

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muscle, they don't have the maths, they don't have the votes to get

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it... To getting new system put in place. Now, what the leader of the

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Senate, Mitch McConnell, is proposing, is a straight up vote in

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the coming weeks to repeal Obamacare with a sort of two-year timetable,

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two-year use on it, if you like. To try and then work out with the

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Democrats perhaps of those... Is something to replace it, not

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absolutely clear that would work either. Donald Trump in the last few

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minutes tweeting that he thinks that Obamacare should be allowed to fail

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and that then people can come together to create a new health care

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plan, seemingly suggesting that you should let the system kind of fall

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apart, which I think would be pretty unacceptable to a lot of people in

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Congress and in this country generally. As things stand, this

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signature central pledge of the Trump campaign to repeal and replace

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Obamacare has fallen, and they will have to focus on other things, like

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the tax reforms and the infrastructure plans, where they

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might be able to get some bipartisan support. Gary, thank you. Gary

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O'Donoghue. The family of a seven-year-old

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autistic boy with a rare condition that puts him at risk of severe

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brain damage are beginning a High Court challenge to an NHS

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decision which has denied him NHS England says the effectiveness

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of the drug, which would cost ?100 Our Legal Correspondent,

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Clive Coleman, is at the High Court. Clive? Well, this young boy, who we

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are calling David for legal reasons, has a condition known as PKU, which

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means that he cannot metabolise protein. That means he is limited to

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12 grams of protein per day. To put that into context, a slice of bread

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has four grams of protein in it. In addition to that he has severe

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autism, so he simply doesn't understand that he can't eat the

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foods that he wants. I spoke to David's father and asked him about

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the challenges of dealing with David.

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He'll sometimes run into a room if we're eating,

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and he will literally take food off our plates.

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He doesn't realise that he can't have certain things.

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When our son gets upset, he really gets upset.

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He's physical with us, physical with his siblings.

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You know, he'll break things in the house.

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Now, David's NHS consultant wants him to have a drug which would help

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him metabolise protein, and allow him to have more of it, but it's

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very expensive, ?100 per day, and NHS England has turned down the

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request for funding for that drug on the basis that it is not

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cost-effective or clinically effective in the long term. Now,

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today that decision is being challenged here at the High Court.

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It's being argued that decision is led to a rational and B doesn't take

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into account the welfare, of the child. If that latter part of the

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claims exceeds it means that the NHS will have to put the welfare of the

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child at the centre of decision-making on whether those

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children get these very expensive drugs, that could have a huge cost

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implication, but it could mean that a lot more children get the drugs

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that they and their parents so desperately want. Thanks, Clive

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Coleman at the High Court. Four members of a police helicopter

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crew have gone on trial accused of using the aircraft to spy

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on people sunbathing naked The case involves the South

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Yorkshire Police helicopter. It's claimed the crew spied

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on people on four occasions A fifth officer has admitted

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the charges of misconduct Let's speak to our correspondent

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Danny Savage, who's What's been said in court, Danny?

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Well, Jane, the opening words to the jury from Richard Wright QC, the

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prosecutor at work, to some of you, the South Yorkshire Police

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helicopter might be a familiar sight in the skies of the city or indeed

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the county of South Yorkshire. This case concerns the use of that

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helicopter on our trip occasions. Waterboarded more accurately,

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perhaps it involves the of that helicopter -- ought to put it more

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accurately. What did they do? The jury was shown by three videos from

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the powerful camera on the nose of that helicopter, which was used as

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part of police surveillance work. The first surveillance video showed

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a woman sunbathing naked in her garden in Rotherham. The second

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showed a couple of naturist sitting outside a caravan near Doncaster.

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The third showed a couple having sex on the patio of their home in South

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Yorkshire. They were willing participants, they knew they were

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being filmed, they were friends of one of the men in the helicopter at

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the time, Adrian Pogmore. On the fourth video showed another woman

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sunbathing dated in their garden in Rotherham. The jury were told this

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was a deliberate invasion of their privacy, at the very least an

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inappropriate use that of the crew and at worse for their sexual

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gratification. You the defendants? Adrian Pogmore is the prime

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defendant. -- who are the defendants. He pleaded guilty to the

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charges faces, misconduct in a public office. Matthew Lucas, a

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police car constable, Lee Wall, a police officer, and Malcolm Reeves,

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another pilot. All four denied the charges and lame Mr Pogmore for what

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happened. -- blamed Mr Pogmore. Thank you, Danny Savage.

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We can probably all think of adverts that portray women as always

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in the kitchen or men failing at simple household tasks.

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Well, now the Advertising Standards Authority is to crack

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down on ads that feature stereotypical gender roles.

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A review carried out by the ASA has suggested that such

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commercials have a cost - for the individual,

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Here's our Media Correspondent, David Sillito.

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Oven Pride - so easy, a man could do it.

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Girls do ballet, and of course boys, maths.

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The Advertising Standards Authority is looking at tightening

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up its rules on how men and women are portrayed in adverts.

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It's going to be OK for an ad to show a woman

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It's going to be OK for an ad to show a man doing

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What we're going to be looking at is ads that go beyond that,

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ads that paint a picture that it is for example the woman's

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role to tidy up after her family who trashed the house,

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We're worried about that sort of depiction.

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Similarly, ads that mock men for being hopeless at performing

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straightforward parental household tasks just because they are a man.

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Look like a girl but think like a man if you want to be a boss?

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The ASA's concerns are about stereotypes or ads that pressurise

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women and men to look and act in a certain way.

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Of course, things have changed since the era that produced this.

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But the question is, what is the dividing line?

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How can such a pretty wife make such bad coffee?

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Nanette Newman spent years beside a washing-up bowl.

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At what point does that become gender stereotyping?

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One of the arguments is that ads are too orientated towards making

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women buy products that are for cleaning,- cleaning the loo,

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cleaning the house, washing-up and everything.

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And very often, those women who are watching those ads,

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their husband's in the kitchen doing the washing up anyway.

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And some feel the ASA's beginning to stray into politics.

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Its primary role is to ensure that advertisers aren't

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They shouldn't be making arbitrary judgments about gender stereotypes

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that they randomly decide they don't like.

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And this is just an organisation who is trying to put the left-wing

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agenda onto the free market, and it has no place there.

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The challenge is deciding what that exactly means.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been visiting

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a former concentration camp as they continue their tour

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The Royal couple have met five Holocaust survivors at Stutthof,

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near Gdansk, where 65,000 people were killed during World War II.

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The Duke and Duchess signed the visitors book at the site, which is

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now run as a museum. This afternoon, the couple will travel to Gdansk and

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its famous shipyard, birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which

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helped to end Communist rule in Poland.

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England's women cricketers are hoping to reach their second

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final in three attempts at the World Cup.

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They started their semifinal against South Africa

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this morning in Bristol, following a winning streak -

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they've won their last six games in the tournament.

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The winner will take on either Australia or India in the final

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Here's our Sports Correspondent, Patrick Gearey.

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169 years ago today, W G Grace was born, the father

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Now, the ground he bought is hosting the Women's World Cup,

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introducing the next generation to the world's best,

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even f that world would seem a strange place to Grace.

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Well, England's women have been gathering

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pace on their road to the

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Since losing to India, they have beaten all the world's

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Now, in South Africa's case, they have got to go out there and

:29:18.:29:21.

The group stage match between these two sides

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South Africa's opening pair scored fast.

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Here's one effective way of slowing them down.

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Few anywhere in the sport could match the speed of

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It was difficult to see Sarah Taylor's

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stumping, let alone pull it off, no wonder the umpire needed the

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She is just 18 and wants to study medicine.

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For now, she dissected England's fields.

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Would Laura Wolvaardt gone, the second ball.

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Marizanne Kapp's frazzled mind saw a single where there was a run out.

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Hi, Jane. More very warm and sunny weather for many of us this

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afternoon. Looking at yesterday's temperatures, the high temperatures

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were in the east and south. High pressure in charge. We still have a

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high pressure with us today. However, it has moved further

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eastwards and allowed the winds to change direction to more south

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easily, pushing the highest temperatures this afternoon into the

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western side of the country. 27 degrees or so for parts of West and

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Wales into north-west England. A warm day for western Scotland.

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Eastern Scotland and England will be a few degrees, with the onshore

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winds. However, there is a storm brewing. This cloud is a type of

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cloud you often see before the arrival of thunderstorms in

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summertime. Here are those storms moving up across the English

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Channel. They have arrived over the last hour across parts of south-west

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England. Devon and Cornwall and probably Dorset will see the first

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batch of storms. Otherwise, a fine and sunny day. Feeling very warm if

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not hot. Those storms will become more widespread this evening and

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overnight. We may well see one moving straight across the London

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area at about 10pm or so. It could be quite spectacular. But some of

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these thunderstorms could bring torrential rain, perhaps half a

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month's worth or more in a couple of hours, bringing the risk of

:31:46.:31:46.

localised flooding, lots of lightning around as well. That could

:31:47.:31:51.

cause disruption to powers of lies and maybe affect transport. It will

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be a warm and muggy night in the south. And we are breaks journey

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northwards through the day. Easing off for a time. -- thundery

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outbreaks. We could see further storms across parts of Wales and

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Northern Ireland, they could be really quite gnostic. It's going to

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be another very warm day if not hot. -- quite Norcia. Temperatures

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reaching 31 or 32 degrees, the Mike Davis am aware we have seen

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temperatures over the 30 degrees mark. -- the ninth time this summer.

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Fresher air working through the West this Thursday, bringing bursts of

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rain, still relatively warm at this stage across the south-east, but the

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cooler air will arrive on Friday and at the weekend. Things look pretty

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unsettled through Friday and the weekend, sunny spells and showers,

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some of the show was will be quite heavy and quite a lot of cloud

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around as well. Temperatures are little call for the time of year,

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particularly across western areas. In the short-term, it's those storms

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were keeping an eye on. Thanks, Chris.

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A reminder of our main story this lunchtime...

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An unexpected fall in inflation for the first time since last

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October, but prices are still rising faster than wages.

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So it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

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